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  The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet           

  It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

  

  NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

   While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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  • New device may keep halibut from bottom trawlers

    In a series of tests off the Washington coast, commercial fishermen used a “flexible sorting grid excluder” to reduce the number of halibut taken as bycatch Read More »

  • Sadly, Cortez commercial fishing leader Thomas ‘Blue’ Fulford dies at 83

    Thomas “Blue” Fulford, who proudly championed the commercial fishing industry his entire life, and served as a leader in the tight-knit Cortez community, died March 28, Read More »
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    Photo Release: Coast Guard tows disabled fishing vessel to Dutch Harbor, Alaska

    Petty Officer 3rd Class Kevin Hedman, a gunners mate aboard Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau, shoots a tow line to fishing vessel Pacific Sounder near Cold Bay, Read More »
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    Richard “Max” Strahan ‘Man in Final Legal Effort to Protect Whales

    Strahan seeks a court order to prevent the state from licensing vertical buoy ropes and to make Massachusetts revoke all existing licenses. The ropes connect traps Read More »

  • Baker to Obama: Monument plan contrary to regional ocean planning

    Governor Charlie Baker today directly addressed his concerns to President Obama about the potential designation of one or more National Marine Monuments off the coast of Read More »
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    Plans For Offshore Wind Energy Draw Criticism At Hearing In Southampton On Monday

    “We know the moment [the federal government] gets a taste of wind farms in the Atlantic, we are going to be playing whack-a-mole with energy and Read More »

  • South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will conduct a series of meetings throughout its region in the months ahead.

    Two hearings will take place on Florida’s east coast, each between 4 and 7 p.m.  The first takes place Tuesday at the Jacksonville Marriott, 4670 Salisbury Read More »

  • A LIFO Win for the Inshore Fleet! Maybe. Who wins when they redistribute the quota is the next question.

    The Ministerial Advisory Panel conducting an external review of the Last-In, First-Out policy (LIFO) released its recommendations yesterday. The Panel recommended abolishing LIFO and implementing permanent Read More »
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    Hoopa Valley Tribe Plans Federal Lawsuit to ‘Protect Salmon on the Brink of Extinction’

    The Hoopa Valley Tribe (Tribe) today announced that it will file a lawsuit within 60 days unless federal agencies reduce the numbers of Endangered Species Act Read More »

  • Questions raised about Coast Guard armed boarding

    Pago Pago – Some new information is emerging about the Coast Guard operation in which the purse seiner Jeanette was boarded by armed Coast Guard personnel Read More »

  • BP Oil spill claims process still stalled

    Due to procedural complications of the BP civil claims process, money that was dedicated to certain kinds of claims is sitting idle. The Seafood Compensation Program Read More »

  • Guest View: The end of “overfishing”? By Dr.Brian J. Rothschild (new england trusted)

    Brian J. Rothschild is the Montgomery Charter professor of Marine Science and Technology at the UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology. The necessity of Read More »

  • Pebble Mine Opponents Urge EPA To Kill Project

    About 30 opponents of the proposed Pebble Mine met in Washington today with White House and high-ranking EPA staff. They came armed with a new EPA Read More »
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    Garnish fish harvesters concerned about green crab

    Garnish fish harvesters Preston and Tonia Grandy are worried about what an abundance of green crab in the waters of Fortune Bay could mean for the Read More »
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    Friday Morning Fire Damages Scallop Boat in Barnegat Light

    Fire officials are investigating the cause of a commercial boat fire Friday morning on a fishing boat in Barnegat Light. Station 51 of the High Point Read More »

  • The ENGO’s are gearing up for MSA Reautorization: Despite gains, more challenges ahead for U.S. fisheries

    Washington Post – Fish stocks off the U.S. coasts, restored to health over the past four decades by cooperation among competing interests and careful management, are Read More »
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    Experts Suck at Predicting the Future

    SPOTLIGHT: 50 years ago, Paul Ehrlich made predictions about the future that weren’t slightly wrong – they were off by a country mile. BIG PICTURE: Experts Read More »
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    Scottish Fishermen’s Federation chief executive Bertie Armstrong to stand down

    The leader of one of Scotland’s biggest fishing industry organisations has announced he is to step down after 14 years in the job. Bertie Armstrong, chief Read More »
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    Fraser River sockeye fishery could be shut down for years

    Fraser River sockeye, once the bread-and-butter of the commercial sector, appear to be collapsing for real this time. In 2009, low returns were described as a Read More »
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    Coast Guard rescues four Fishermen who abandoned ship south of Atka Island, Alaska

    An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew rescued four people who abandoned ship after their boat began taking on water when it reportedly hit a rock south of Read More »

  • Environmental Threat Turned Sustainable Business for the Gulf of California

    Considered a threat to the biodiversity of marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California, the cannonball jellyfish Stomolophus meleagris is intended to be exploited commercially throughout the Read More »

  • Senate draft of fisheries act begins circulating – Molly Dischner

    The newest version of the Magnuson-Stevens Act out for discussion adds subsistence users and Tribal governments to the fisheries management law and has the potential to Read More »

  • South Atlantic Fishery Council credibility is at stake

    Last year, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council made a big splash,,,  The phrase “catch shares” is nowhere to be found in the document. Instead creative Read More »

  • West Coast Crab Strike is Over

    Oregon crab fishermen Friday came to an agreement with processors, ending an 11-day strike over the cost companies will pay this season for their harvest. In Read More »

  • NPFMC fails to clarify observer program

    Homer News – The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association’s attempt to get the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to clarify the objectives of the restructured observer program Read More »

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